Movie Review: Ex Machina
© 2015 C. Henry Martens
A Movie to Creep Us Out
5 stars, a film that should appeal to the scientifically minded and those with an appreciation for what the future may hold. Much more realistic than most of this genre and therefore thought provoking.
How fun has it been to anticipate artificial intelligence? To wonder at what form it will take? What abilities it will have? How benign it will be… or sinister it will become?
This film, Ex Machina , explores the idea that a robot can become manipulative. That it will develop motives and act in its own best interests. That it could acquire a survival criteria and learn to lie. And most problematic, that a synthetic brain will have no conscience or will not place value in the same ways that a human finds acceptable.
We aren’t talking about a sophisticated toaster here. This is a machine with a face full of big, liquid, doe eyes, smooth, flawless skin, and pouty red lips. Even though the rest of the mechanical structure is exposed, it is a fully feminine form with plenty of curves and nuanced gender specific movement. What human being can resist feeling an attachment to something so apparently innocent?
What happens if an artificial brain learns? I mean, isn’t that the whole point? To create a learning machine? What happens… when it has, as example, a human being? Will it overcome our base tendencies and deny them to become a better-than-the-creator, us, being? Or will it study what is placed in front of it and become a manipulator, liar, hoarder, competitor on steroids? Are we the best example of what is to become? Picture your neighbor but magnified a hundred or a thousand times in every foible, every petty machination.
At least robots won’t be alcoholics. But they will have alcoholics that act as mentors.
Ex Machina, now available on Digital HD and Blu-Ray,is a movie that brings all of these thoughts to mind. The film provides answers, but any person with an imagination will come away with more questions than the movie can possibly provide.
Will there be a sequel? I can’t wait… but I’m already apprehensive.
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A Movie to Creep Us Out
5 stars, a film that should appeal to the scientifically minded and those with an appreciation for what the future may hold. Much more realistic than most of this genre and therefore thought provoking.
How fun has it been to anticipate artificial intelligence? To wonder at what form it will take? What abilities it will have? How benign it will be… or sinister it will become?
This film, Ex Machina , explores the idea that a robot can become manipulative. That it will develop motives and act in its own best interests. That it could acquire a survival criteria and learn to lie. And most problematic, that a synthetic brain will have no conscience or will not place value in the same ways that a human finds acceptable.
We aren’t talking about a sophisticated toaster here. This is a machine with a face full of big, liquid, doe eyes, smooth, flawless skin, and pouty red lips. Even though the rest of the mechanical structure is exposed, it is a fully feminine form with plenty of curves and nuanced gender specific movement. What human being can resist feeling an attachment to something so apparently innocent?
What happens if an artificial brain learns? I mean, isn’t that the whole point? To create a learning machine? What happens… when it has, as example, a human being? Will it overcome our base tendencies and deny them to become a better-than-the-creator, us, being? Or will it study what is placed in front of it and become a manipulator, liar, hoarder, competitor on steroids? Are we the best example of what is to become? Picture your neighbor but magnified a hundred or a thousand times in every foible, every petty machination.
At least robots won’t be alcoholics. But they will have alcoholics that act as mentors.
Ex Machina, now available on Digital HD and Blu-Ray,is a movie that brings all of these thoughts to mind. The film provides answers, but any person with an imagination will come away with more questions than the movie can possibly provide.
Will there be a sequel? I can’t wait… but I’m already apprehensive.
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